I was suspicious of this story at first, then my suspicions lessened greatly when it was on Reason.com. Reason.com is by no means a fluff magazine or a propaganda piece/outlet by any stretch of the imagination. A fantastic news source.

I then went to Google News and entered the keywords "French troops Syria" and found some news outlets on this. I am beginning to wonder if it is possible French (and/or even British) troops are going in. Hmmm...

Won't amount to a hill of beans. Congress lost its war declaration powers long ago. Obama's mindset is, "I'm the C-in-C, I control the military. They go where I tell them. This is... uhhh... a global initiative. Uhhh... we are global... uhhh... citizens. This is for the good of the... uhhh... global community."

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posted on 12/06/2012 7:41:04 AM PST
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

That would be prudent. Assad is said to be considering the Samson scenario with his chemweps. Israel would massively retaliate if a Syrian strike occurs against her, unless O
has secretly agreed to preempt it in some fashion.

They should have followed Tuco's Law, variant 3: "If you are going to intervene, intervene." Instead, the _resident waits until chemical weapons are out of storage, primed and ready. Then he puts the troops in harm's way. Just like waiting for Iran to get a functional nuke.

Prayers for our troops.

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posted on 12/06/2012 7:58:21 AM PST
by NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)

Syria is one more revolution that is part of arab spring operation. Brought to us by the globalist/elites.

Essentially these revolutions are Globalist / Soros revolutions that the State Dept provides funding for through USAID and other programs. The US Military is used, as it was in Libya, to keep the target nation from using large air campaigns to defeat the insurgency. The CIA is used where necessary (as these are official U.S. operations).

Please read the State Depts own websites. It's there, it's just not put on TV so no one knows about it. Who sits and reads the State Dept websites ? Almost no one.

The ping list Link takes you the a keyword search of all the MEPI threads on FR.

That would be prudent. Assad is said to be considering the Samson scenario with his chemweps.

That is what the idiots running the west right now do not realize. They cannot get Assad to leave by offering him asylum. He represents a significant ethnic group. It is not just about him. If he leaves, his entire extended ethnic family of thousands, will be killed and tortured by the Islamic Insurgents and Sunni Rebels.

That is what they tried to do during the first Gulf War. They bombed all of Saddams facilities. Later on they discovered that bombing the facilities released the elements into the immediate area. In Iraq they were located out in the dessert. In Syria they are located close to residential areas. One of the bombed facilities in Iraq, was damaged so bad that the UN could not even enter the facility. They just sealed it and left it there. After the final war to remove Saddam, the facility was still there and still sealed by the UN. So the claim that WMD was not in Iraq was patently false, as every thing else that ever came out of the Oligarchies mouth. They initially left the facility sealed, then came back and found that the facility had been entered and cleaned out of its WMD. No one knows who got the stuff.

So if the US wants to continue its primary objective in the Middle East and Africa, which appears to be getting WMD into the hands of Islamic terrorists, then they will bomb his facilities by air.

Is the navy having problems staffing its ships with qualified personnel?

The Navy is being forced to do more with less. Technology improvements have reduced the required number of bodies but the Navy is shrinking and a lot of sailors are getting RIF'd. The CVW alone requires fewer mechanics, technicians, pilots, etc. ...

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